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Rainy Season Worries

Rainy Season Worries

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* During the rainy season…Florida’s greenery grows over-night….. You can watch as its vines and leaves actually creep and crawl towards you….. If you hold still long enough….. …..the local flora will wrap up your body from ankles to nose…and turn you into a Disney topiary sculpture….. It’s a little scary….. We’re rapidly approaching “the height” (or nadir–depending on your perspective) of the 2025 Hurricane Season….. Theoretically…after September 10th…it’s supposed to be the downside…

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~White Noise & Mowing~

~White Noise & Mowing~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Who would have thought that I’d ever look forward to mowing….. Our tractor has come back home and is fixed (with hardly anything being done to it…for just over $900.00)…who would’ve thought axle grease could be so expensive(?)….. …..my older daughter did the majority of the maintenance and repairs ahead of time…(I actually think that irritated the dealership)….. There appears to be a common consensus that our tractor’s electrical issues are as a…

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Yellow Or Green Pea Soup

Yellow Or Green Pea Soup

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* It’s Hot Outside!….. It’s another Hot Month in Sunny Sub-Tropical Florida….. Air Conditioning is a lifeline to be taken advantage of at any & all opportunities….. I suppose it’s not really the season for soup…but our freezer is over-flowing with frozen pork and ham bones….. I needed to make room…I need to do something with all those frozen bones…(it sounds like I’m trying to get rid of murder evidence doesn’t it?)….. But…my go-to…

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~This Old House~

~This Old House~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* ~~~~~Try My Posts on SubStack/Click Here~~~~~ Our home was built in 1980….. …..it’s Fifty-Five Years Old!………….Geez!….. But because it’s an old house…lots of things keep breaking…lots of things need fixing….. I’ve lived here since 1992…and the air conditioner was limping along & hiccuping even back then….. It’s been duct taped…glued…and held together with spit and hope and good intentions….. The house’s A/C system has been a patchwork of repairs…lots of bandages…lots of temporary…

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~Hot Biddies~(and détente)…

~Hot Biddies~(and détente)…

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** It’s Hot!….. It’s now July in Sunny Subtropical Florida….. We are all miserably hot…and sitting in puddles of sweat….. …..and the chickens aren’t laying as many eggs in the heat….. My biddies are protesting…I don’t blame them….. The Runner Ducks stopped laying awhile ago…but that’s to be expected…because they’re only seasonal layers….. So…to attempt jump starting the chicken egg laying…I’ve started my old time-tested egg production enhancer….. I’m sprinkling cayenne pepper on their…

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*The Scorch Is Back*

*The Scorch Is Back*

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Yes it is….. The Summer Heat is definitely here…on our soggy…steamy…mossy…moldy…dead end road in the Swamp….. I’m already counting the weeks until (semi) cooler weather….. I look forward to September…it’s the carrot I dangle to stay motivated and get through the Summer in Sunny Sub-Tropical Florida….. Autumn…ahhhhh…cooler weather…falling leaves…brisk air…like it’s really going to be any cooler in September………….because it’s not….. Somehow..I correlate September with Fall…but it’s still super-steamy even then…and our active…

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Outdoor Projects Are On Hold

Outdoor Projects Are On Hold

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** There are so many projects which are stacking up….. There’s a line-up of “Have To’s” on our list of “To Do’s”….. The majority of them have already been started…and necessarily put on hold…because of the scorching heat & electrical rainstorms….. Anything that needs to be finished…is just waiting in the wings…(the hot stifling wings)….. …..the pending projects are temporarily hanging together with duct tape and zip-ties and spit….. Having recently complained about our…

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~So Close~

~So Close~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** I was planning on picking up Pepper at Mary Constance’s and bringing her home….. Everything was so friggin’ close….. So close….. But…I just discovered that the pasture where I intended to keep Pepper…is now totally wet and holding water….. I went out yesterday to pull some last minute weeds (the less than desirable fennel and burrs)…and I sank….. Pepper is the Clydesdale mare who is coming here and who I plan to ride……..

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Cabin Fever In Florida

Cabin Fever In Florida

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** It’s the middle of September in the Sunny Sub-Tropical Interior of Florida….. No beach breezes…no evaporative zephyrs…just suffocating humidity….. …..and there’s a lot of sweat…that’s pooling and sticking everywhere….. I think this is the closest we get to the cabin fever that’s similar to what people in the Yukon experience in late winter….. It’s still weather-dictated…just the other end of the thermometer….. It’s So Hot…It’s So Humid…It’s So Muggy….. Everything & Everyone is…

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~Labor Day~

~Labor Day~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Today is Labor Day….. It’s the unofficial beginning of Autumn….. There’s hope that cooler weather might be right around the corner….. …..but I won’t hold my breath….. There are three tropical “somethings” out in the Caribbean Sea/Gulf of Mexico/& the Atlantic….. Today…we won’t think about those things….. We’re taking today as easy as possible…which is the national intention for this day….. We’re using the cooker-smoker to barbecue chicken and roast corn for a…

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